An easy method for finding the integral of the formula ∫ (x^n+p - 2 xⁿcosζ+ x^n-p)/(x²ⁿ - 2 xⁿcosθ+ 1) dx/x when the upper limit of integration is x=1 or x=∞

2011/11/23 by Leonhard Euler, Euler, Leonhard, Jacques Gélinas +1
Mathematics · #FOS: Mathematics #History and Overview (math.HO) #math.HO

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1111.5571

23 pages, Eneström-620, English, French, Latin. Corrections, details, and summary by Poisson

arxiv created 2012/02/02 · arxiv updated 2012/02/06

Abstract

This is a translation of an article presented by Leonhard Euler on 18 March 1776 (Opera Omnia I-XVIII, pp. 265-290) and of summaries for it by Siméon Denis Poisson in 1820 and by Heinrich Burkhardt in 1916. An appendix lists in modern notation interesting definite integrals and series which Euler, after using partial fractions to prove his main formula, obtained formally by allowing the parameters n, p, zeta and theta to take particular, even pure imaginary, values : the Fourier cosine and two-sided Laplace transforms of the trigonometric and of the hyperbolic secant (also squared), and their partial fraction decomposition. The source archive provides, in Plain TeX, LaTeX and PDF formats, the corrected Latin text and a complete translation into French.

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